Floppy device names?

Bart Silverstrim bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Fri Feb 15 15:49:41 UTC 2008


stan wrote:
> I need to transfer data to/from external machines, and we historically do
> this via using tar to write to floppies. I've untared this stuff on FreeBSD
> for years, but am having a bit of an issue getting this to work on Ubuntu
> (7.10). I have a USB floppy plugged in to the Ubuntu machine, what device(s)
> should I see this as?

Just after you plug in the device, you may get the name if you run 
"dmesg" and see what the usb-related discovery messages say.




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